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Upcoming EventsThe Merit of Words and Letters, Feb 15http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=114205&date=2018-02-15
Classical Chan/Zen literature is famous for its disparagement of scriptural authority, ranging from the well-known slogan “separate transmission outside the scriptures...,” attributed to Bodhidharma, to stories of renowned Zen masters abusing Buddhist scriptures. Nevertheless, similar to other Buddhist schools, incantations of sutras and invocation of dhāranī have been a significant component of Zen monastic life throughout history. Not only do Zen monks not burn sutras, but in fact daily and monthly sutra-recitation services, including different offerings and prayers, take up more of the monks’ time and effort than does any other activity, including zazen.<br />
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This talk examines the liturgical function of Buddhist scriptures within the Japanese Rinzai Zen School. Specifically, it aims to better understand how Zen practitioners interpret the meaning and purpose of sutra recitation, and how they bridge the apparent gap between the disparagement of scriptural authority and the pervasiveness of Buddhist scriptures in their monastic life. To achieve this goal, we will explore the Kankinbō 看経榜 (“Reading Sutra Placard”) chapter of Goke sanshō yōromon 五家參詳要路門 (“An Examination of the Essential Teaching of the Five Houses”; T 2576), written by the eminent eighteenth-century Japanese Rinzai monk Tōrei Enji (東嶺圓慈, 1721–1792).<br />
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Tōrei discussion combines various mental and physical benefits of sutra recitation, as well as its power to positively affect natural and supernatural environments. Thus, this work highlights the multifaceted understanding of texts as ritual objects, one that challenges any strict distinctions between worldly benefits and spiritual cultivation. Moreover, Tōrei exegetical efforts to explain the function and to justify the legitimacy of sutra recitation clearly indicate that the tension between antinomian rhetoric and worship was a major concern for pre-modern Zen masters, and not, as some scholars have argued, merely the result of projecting Western categories on traditional Zen practice. Accordingly, I contend that the Kankinbō can advance our understanding of the relations between the orthodox view of rituals within the Rinzai Zen tradition and its modern interpretations in Japan and elsewhere.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=114205&date=2018-02-15The Ito Sisters: An American Story, Feb 15http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=115126&date=2018-02-15
Join us for a screening of the film "The Ito Sisters: An American Story," followed by Q&A with the Director/Producer Antonia Grace Glenn and Processor Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Michael Omi.<br />
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THE ITO SISTERS captures the rarely told stories of the earliest Japanese immigrants to the United States and their American-born children. In particular, the film focuses on the experiences of Issei (or immigrant) and Nisei (or first generation born in the US) women, whose voices have largely been excluded from American history. At the center of the film are three Nisei sisters: Natsuye (Nancy), Haruye (Lillian) and Hideko (Hedy), who were born on a farm in the Sacramento River Delta and whose lives were directly impacted by some of the most significant events of 20th-century America, from the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 to the Great Depression to World War II. The film also explores the lives of the women's parents, Yetsusaburo and Toku Ito, who came to the United States to earn money so they could return to Japan, but whose plans were repeatedly thwarted.<br />
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Featuring interviews with the three sisters -- conducted in their 80s and 90s -- the film is also brought to life through family and archival photographs and documents; verbatim quotes from prominent historical figures; commentary and analysis from renowned scholars; and artistic illustrations. THE ITO SISTERS reveals a little-known chapter of American history, focusing on life in what was essentially a California plantation system between the world wars, with Asian and Mexican laborers working the fields of white landowners. The film explores themes that remain timely today: the meaning of American identity and citizenship for immigrants and their children; and tensions between new Americans and anti-immigrant forces.<br />
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<a href="https://www.itosisters.com/">https://www.itosisters.com/</a>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=115126&date=2018-02-15East Side Sushi, Feb 26http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=115441&date=2018-02-26
<b>SOLD OUT: Regular tickets are sold out. Please feel free to reserve a spot on the waitlist for this event. You will be notified on Friday, February 23, if any seats become available.</b><br />
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Join us for a screening of the a film <b>East Side Sushi</b>, followed by a Q&A with the Director <b>Anthony Lucero</b> and Chef <b>Tomoharu Nakamura</b> of Wako Japanese Restaurant. <br />
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<b>East Side Sushi</b> introduces us to Juana, a working-class Latina single mother who strives to become a sushi chef.<br />
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Years of working in the food industry have made Juana’s hands fast—very fast. She can slice and dice anything you throw at her with great speed and precision. Forced to give up her fruit-vending cart in order to find a more secure job, Juana lands a position as a kitchen assistant at a local Japanese restaurant. It is there she discovers a new friendship and a whole new world of cuisine and culture, far-removed from everything she has ever known.<br />
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While working in the restaurant’s kitchen, Juana secretly observes the sushi chefs and eventually teaches herself to make a multitude of sushi. Her creativity sparked, Juana’s re-ignited passion for food drives her to want more from her job and her life.<br />
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Eventually she attempts to become a sushi chef, but is unable to because she is the “wrong” race and gender. Against all odds, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, determined to not let anyone stop her from achieving her dream.<br />
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Co-sponsored by the <a href="http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/itprtop_ja/index.html">Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco</a>,<br />
<a href="http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/">The Japan Foundation</a>, and the <a href="https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/sanfrancisco/">Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco</a>.<br />
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RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKET ON EVENTBRITE <br />
<a href="http://eastsidesushi.eventbrite.com">http://eastsidesushi.eventbrite.com</a>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=115441&date=2018-02-26Buddhism and Social Discrimination in Japan, Mar 1http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=115129&date=2018-03-01
This meeting will focus on how Japanese Buddhist culture has responded in premodern and modern times to the needs of individuals traditionally branded by social custom as <i>hinin</i> 非人 (outcastes) by reason of profession, medical condition, family background, or poverty. <br />
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<b>Hank Glassman</b> (Associate Professor, Haverford College)<br />
"Kegawarashii: Discrimination against Funeral Workers in Japan, Medieval and Modern"<br />
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<b>Jessica Main</b> (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia) <br />
"Public Health and Propaganda: Shin Buddhism and the Campaign to Eradicate Leprosy in the 1930s" <br />
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<b>Jessica Starling</b> (Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark College) <br />
"Practicing Ethics in Contemporary Shin Buddhism: Deconstructing Stigma at a Former Leprosarium".http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=115129&date=2018-03-01Camp and Campus, Mar 1http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=115655&date=2018-03-01
Cal alumna <b>Joyce Nao Takahashi</b> (’55) was born in Berkeley, California, the second daughter of alumni, Henry (’26) and Barbara (’30) Takahashi. She grew up in Berkeley, with the exception of the “war years”, which she spent in Tanforan, California, Topaz, Utah and Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Berkeley High School, and the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. In retirement, she is an Emerita Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California, and a volunteer with the Time of Remembrance program at the California Museum, Sacramento, California. As a board member of the Japanese American Women Alumnae of the University of California, Berkeley she participated in the club’s oral history project, which is the basis for the monograph, <i>Japanese American Alumnae of the University of California, Berkeley: <b>Lives and Legacy</b></i>.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=115655&date=2018-03-01Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials, Mar 2-4, 2018http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=113626&date=2018-03-02
The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the <i>Tannishō</i>, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. 2018 will be the second year in this five-year project that meets twice each year: we will meet in Berkeley from March 2 to 4 and in Kyoto at Ryūkoku University from June 22 to 24. Organized around close readings of the most influential materials produced in early modern, modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at producing a critical, annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which this text has been both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of essays analyzing a wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and preaching that have spoken on this work. For the early modern or Edo period, the commentaries by Enchi (1662), Jukoku (1740), Jinrei (1808), and Ryōshō (1841) will be examined. For the modern period, works by Andō Shūichi (1909), Chikazumi Jōkan (1930), and Soga Ryōjin (1947) will be the major concern. And for the postwar/postmodern period, due to the sheer volume of publications (over 300 titles), reading choices will be selected at a later date in consultation with participants. <br />
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<b>Format</b>: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be in primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in <i>kanbun</i> and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content. <br />
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<b>Dates</b>: Exact dates will vary from year to year based on academic calendars, but for 2018 the meeting hosted by U.C. Berkeley will take place from the 2nd to the 4th of March at the Jōdo Shinshū Center in Berkeley, and in Kyoto the seminar will be hosted by Ryūkoku University from the 22nd to the 24th of June. <br />
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<b>Cost:</b> There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project.<br />
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<b>Participation Requirements:</b> Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is acceptable. <br />
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<b>Application Procedure:</b> Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply to register for either or both of the workshops for 2018, send C.V. and short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by the end of <b>January, 2018</b>. Applications are by email only, and application deadlines will remain as end-January in subsequent years as well. Requests for a travel fellowship money should be included in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from and if you plan to attend one or both meetings that year. Questions about the content of the workshop may be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu. Communication regarding the Kyoto meeting may be sent to Karasawa Taisuke at karasawa-taisuke@ad.ryukoku.ac.jp.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=113626&date=2018-03-02Intersectionality and Poverty, Mar 21http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116429&date=2018-03-21
Please join us for a talk by Soya Mori (Professor and Senior Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization, and visiting scholar, UC Berkeley Dept of Anthropology) on Wednesday, March 21st at 4pm, in the Gifford Room (221), Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley.<br />
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This talk (part of the HIFIS Disability Studies Occasional Lecture Series) is free and open to the public. Presentation given in ASL (ASL interpretation provided). Venue is wheelchair accessible. Please refrain from wearing scented products. For any access questions or needs (including CART transcription), please email: knak@berkeley.edu<br />
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Talk description: The subject area of “women with disabilities in developing countries” is complex and nuanced. It falls within the domain of Intersectionality because it encompasses Gender, Disability and Social/Economic Development. The situation of women with disabilities in developing countries has been mentioned in many scholarly articles on international cooperation. And although we are aware of case studies, discourse analysis and literary criticism related to this issue appearing in sociological studies, there have been very few quantitative, evidence-based analyses applicable to related policy decisions. For example, these women can be referred to as “multiply-disadvantaged” due to their poverty and the barriers they face. We know their lives are difficult, yet we do not know specifically what contributes to the challenges they face, especially in comparison with women in general. We also do not know how their situation differs from that of men with disabilities in the same country.<br />
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In this presentation, I will share my analysis of the status of women with disabilities in the Philippines, based on the data I collected between 2008 and 2017 in both the northern and southern regions of the country. One reason I designed a study to compare these two geographical areas is that it appears that the women in the southern region experience greater social barriers than those in the northern region. I hope the analysis will reveal many of the factors at work in the Philippines so that we can see the effects of intersectionality and understand them much better through the examination of specific, concrete situations in these women’s lives.<br />
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This talk is sponsored by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Disability Studies Research Cluster, and Prof. Karen Nakamura, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair of Disability Studies.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116429&date=2018-03-21Antidotal, Mar 24http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116189&date=2018-03-24
The University of California, Berkeley C. V. Starr East Asian Library and the Center for Japanese Studies are proud to present an installation of work by Masako Takahashi, Class of ‘74, which will run from March 24 through May 1. The opening reception will be on Saturday, March 24, from 3:00-5:00PM at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library.<br />
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"Antidotal" is in two parts. Playful, vibrantly colorful wool pompoms will be suspended throughout the library. Their confident colors and comforting textures offer an antidote to the toxic stresses of contemporary life. Additionally, a selection of "Hair Text" pieces, Takahashi's own hair embroidered onto silk in an enigmatic text, will be included in display cases and on the walls of the first floor. Takahashi, an American of Japanese ancestry, lives and works in San Francisco and has maintained a studio in Mexico since 1984. She has been widely exhibited in North America and Europe.<br />
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This event is free and open to the public.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116189&date=2018-03-24G Yamazawa -SOLD OUT, Apr 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116498&date=2018-04-12
Born in Durham, NC and raised by Japanese immigrants, poet and musical artist George "G" Masao Yamazawa, Jr. is widely considered to be one of the top spoken word artists in the U.S.<br />
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Nominated for Best New Hip Hop Artist by the 2016 Carolina Music Awards, G continues to challenge American perspective on race & culture, poetry & rap, and the phenomena of the human condition through his poetry and music.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116498&date=2018-04-12Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan, Apr 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=113475&date=2018-04-13
Please join us on April 13th and 14th for the UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference: <b>Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan</b>. Labor has and continues to be an important analytic in Japanese Studies as it illuminates diverse phenomena such as macro-economic change, state-society relations, and industrial development. Yet, drawing upon recent approaches in anthropology, sociology, and material culture, this conference seeks to invoke the concepts of work and livelihood, which can emphasize subjectivity, sociality and the material conditions to sustaining life in ways that complement and complicate previous studies focusing on traditional concepts of labor. With the goal of reframing what constitutes “labor,” graduate student panels will invoke “work” and “livelihood” as a means of addressing such categories as domestic structures, underemployment, immaterial production, transnational labor, among other topics.<br />
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<b>Schedule</b><br />
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[Friday, April 13]<br />
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02:00-02:10 Opening Remarks<br />
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02:10-03:40 PANEL 1 | Political Messaging of Labor<br />
Discussant: Steve Vogel, UC Berkeley<br />
Moderator: Benjamin Bartlett, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Frank Mondelli</b>, Stanford University | Quotidian Labor: Narrative Political Framing in Japanese Politics and Twitter<br />
<b>Shelby Oxenford</b>, UC Berkeley | The Labor of Advertising and the Work of Memory post-3.11<br />
<b>Jun Hee Lee</b>, University of Chicago | In Chorus with Japanese Laborers: Celebrating the Miike Strike and the Laborer-Composer Ideal in the Utagoe Movement<br />
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04:00-05:30 Keynote Lecture: “Matter of Death in Solitary Times” by <b>Prof. Anne Allison</b>, Duke University<br />
<i>With a high aging/low birthrate population and the rate of marriage and even coupling on the decline in Japan, the primary social unit is moving from the family to the individual. As more and more Japanese live alone, they also face the prospect of death without those who once assumed the responsibility of caring for the dead. Seeing this as a limit case for sociality, the talk engages new practices in Japan that cater to mortuary self-care by the to-be-deceased themselves. When grievability itself becomes a matter assigned the individual for a future when already dead, what precisely happens to the form of the social?</i><br />
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[Saturday, April 14]<br />
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10:00-11:30 PANEL 2 | Dysfunctions of Labor<br />
Discussant: Anne Allison, Duke University<br />
Moderator: Justus Watt, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Ramsey Ismail</b>, UC San Diego | Not Working, Working from Home: The Work of Hikikomori<br />
<b>Felix Jawinski</b>, Leipzig University | Continuities and Struggles of Nuclear Laborers in Japan<br />
<b>Gao Ming</b>, National University of Singapore | Chinese Migrant Workers, Prostitution, and Opium in Japanese Manchukuo<br />
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11:45-01:15 PANEL 3 | Representational Work and the Mediation of Labor<br />
Discussant: Daniel O'Neill, UC Berkeley<br />
Moderator: Shoufu Yin, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Justus Watt</b>, UC Berkeley | From Livelihood to Labor: Ie no Hikari and Economic Rationalization in Rural Japan, 1925-1935<br />
<b>Hannah Airriess</b>, UC Berkeley | Staging the Bright Life: White-Collar Cinema in Japan's Era of High Economic Growth<br />
<b>Drew Korschun</b>, University of Colorado | Reading Nakajima Atsushi and Robert Louis Stevenson Through the Lens of Colonial Economy in the Pacific Islands<br />
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02:00-03:30 PANEL 4 | Labor's Production Beyond the Material<br />
Discussant: Jonathan Zwicker, UC Berkeley<br />
Moderator: Joel Thielen, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Thomas Gimbel</b>, University of Chicago | Philosophy, Sweat, and Flowers: Thought and Labor at Sengan-en<br />
<b>Xiaoyi Yang</b>, Bard Graduate Center | Appropriating Zhangzhou Blue-and-White Ceramics in Japan<br />
<b>Thiam Huat Kam</b>, Rutgers University | The Immaterial Labor of Materialization: Fans’ Dōjin Activity in Contemporary Japan<br />
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03:50-05:00 ROUNDTABLE: Labor in Medieval & Early Modern Japan<br />
Lead Discussant: Brendan Morley, UC Berkeley<br />
Moderator: Hannah Airriess, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Kaitlin Forgash</b>, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Joel Thielen</b>, UC Berkeley <br />
<b>Shoufu Yin</b>, UC Berkeley<br />
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05:00-05:10 Closing Remarkshttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=113475&date=2018-04-13Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan, Apr 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=113476&date=2018-04-14
Please join us on April 13th and 14th for the UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference: <b>Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan</b>. Labor has and continues to be an important analytic in Japanese Studies as it illuminates diverse phenomena such as macro-economic change, state-society relations, and industrial development. Yet, drawing upon recent approaches in anthropology, sociology, and material culture, this conference seeks to invoke the concepts of work and livelihood, which can emphasize subjectivity, sociality and the material conditions to sustaining life in ways that complement and complicate previous studies focusing on traditional concepts of labor. With the goal of reframing what constitutes “labor,” graduate student panels will invoke “work” and “livelihood” as a means of addressing such categories as domestic structures, underemployment, immaterial production, transnational labor, among other topics.<br />
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<b>Schedule</b><br />
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[Friday, April 13]<br />
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02:00-02:10 Opening Remarks<br />
<br />
02:10-03:40 PANEL 1 | Political Messaging of Labor<br />
Discussant: Steve Vogel, UC Berkeley<br />
Moderator: Benjamin Bartlett, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Frank Mondelli</b>, Stanford University | Quotidian Labor: Narrative Political Framing in Japanese Politics and Twitter<br />
<b>Shelby Oxenford</b>, UC Berkeley | The Labor of Advertising and the Work of Memory post-3.11<br />
<b>Jun Hee Lee</b>, University of Chicago | In Chorus with Japanese Laborers: Celebrating the Miike Strike and the Laborer-Composer Ideal in the Utagoe Movement<br />
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04:00-05:30 Keynote Lecture: “Matter of Death in Solitary Times” by <b>Prof. Anne Allison</b>, Duke University<br />
<i>With a high aging/low birthrate population and the rate of marriage and even coupling on the decline in Japan, the primary social unit is moving from the family to the individual. As more and more Japanese live alone, they also face the prospect of death without those who once assumed the responsibility of caring for the dead. Seeing this as a limit case for sociality, the talk engages new practices in Japan that cater to mortuary self-care by the to-be-deceased themselves. When grievability itself becomes a matter assigned the individual for a future when already dead, what precisely happens to the form of the social?</i><br />
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[Saturday, April 14]<br />
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10:00-11:30 PANEL 2 | Dysfunctions of Labor<br />
Discussant: Anne Allison, Duke University<br />
Moderator: Justus Watt, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Ramsey Ismail</b>, UC San Diego | Not Working, Working from Home: The Work of Hikikomori<br />
<b>Felix Jawinski</b>, Leipzig University | Continuities and Struggles of Nuclear Laborers in Japan<br />
<b>Gao Ming</b>, National University of Singapore | Chinese Migrant Workers, Prostitution, and Opium in Japanese Manchukuo<br />
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11:45-01:15 PANEL 3 | Representational Work and the Mediation of Labor<br />
Discussant: Daniel O'Neill, UC Berkeley<br />
Moderator: Shoufu Yin, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Justus Watt</b>, UC Berkeley | From Livelihood to Labor: Ie no Hikari and Economic Rationalization in Rural Japan, 1925-1935<br />
<b>Hannah Airriess</b>, UC Berkeley | Staging the Bright Life: White-Collar Cinema in Japan's Era of High Economic Growth<br />
<b>Drew Korschun</b>, University of Colorado | Reading Nakajima Atsushi and Robert Louis Stevenson Through the Lens of Colonial Economy in the Pacific Islands<br />
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02:00-03:30 PANEL 4 | Labor's Production Beyond the Material<br />
Discussant: Jonathan Zwicker, UC Berkeley<br />
Moderator: Joel Thielen, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Thomas Gimbel</b>, University of Chicago | Philosophy, Sweat, and Flowers: Thought and Labor at Sengan-en<br />
<b>Xiaoyi Yang</b>, Bard Graduate Center | Appropriating Zhangzhou Blue-and-White Ceramics in Japan<br />
<b>Thiam Huat Kam</b>, Rutgers University | The Immaterial Labor of Materialization: Fans’ Dōjin Activity in Contemporary Japan<br />
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03:50-05:00 ROUNDTABLE: Labor in Medieval & Early Modern Japan<br />
Lead Discussant: Brendan Morley, UC Berkeley<br />
Moderator: Hannah Airriess, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Kaitlin Forgash</b>, UC Berkeley<br />
<b>Joel Thielen</b>, UC Berkeley <br />
<b>Shoufu Yin</b>, UC Berkeley<br />
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05:00-05:10 Closing Remarkshttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=113476&date=2018-04-14Tour of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library and Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies, Apr 21http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116413&date=2018-04-21
Tour the East Asian Library, with collections in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean now totaling over 1.1 million volumes, and view “The Art of Masako Takahashi,” a special exhibit sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies. This is a stop on the Library Passport!http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116413&date=2018-04-21Western Language Resources for East Asian Studies, Apr 26http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116949&date=2018-04-26
Introduction to locating materials and information in Western languages in the area of East Asian Studies by using library databases, catalogs and other bibliographic tools.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116949&date=2018-04-26Across the High Seas, May 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116201&date=2018-05-05
THIS IS A 2-DAY EVENT:<br />
Friday May 4: 9:30-5pm<br />
Saturday May 5: 9:30-12:30<br />
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In the public imagination, the Silk Roads has become a catchall phrase to describe the overland and maritime exchange networks crisscrossing Eurasia, from the first Millennium BCE through (at least) the medieval period. <br />
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Although distinct patterns of long-distance exchange are attested to as early as the Bronze Age when, for example, lapis lazuli was exported by land and sea from the Indus Valley to the Near East, textual and archaeological research points to the turn of the Common Era as the period when the first institutionalized networks of maritime trade connecting what is now Europe to Africa and Asia were developed, concomitant with existing overland routes. These networks were defined by increased levels of interaction alongside the exchange of goods and ideas. <br />
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As scholars continue to explore and uncover particularities of the Eurasian networks, evidence suggests there is a need to reconfigure the monolithically imagined Silk Roads into smaller fragmented webs of economic, political and cultural exchanges, to locate those networks in time and space, and to study them as functioning both independently and interdependently. <br />
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This conference will highlight recent archaeological and historical research on some of the networks that operated across and around the Indian Ocean, and focus on the spatial configurations specific to maritime trade and the transformations of cultural and material artifacts as a result of those exchanges.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116201&date=2018-05-05Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery Construction, Jun 10http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116962&date=2018-06-10
Come learn all about traditional Japanese woodworking. Through understanding a variety of tools and their use in making joinery, you will leave with knowledge of creating beautiful wood to wood connections with no glues or fasteners! Instructor Jay Van Arsdale will bring tools and joinery samples, and after a morning of demonstration students will be able to try their hand at using them. <br />
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About the instructor: <br />
Jay apprenticed early on with his father and grandfather in his family’s blacksmith shop in Kentucky. After graduating from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1970, he came to the Bay Area where he attended Mills College in Oakland, (MFA in Art, ’72).<br />
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Jay was inspired to become involved with Japanese woodworking in the mid 1970’s after seeing a demonstration by Japanese Daiku Makoto Imai, who he learned from for a number of years. Jay has worked and taught in the Bay Area since the early 80’s. He has given demos/lectures and other presentations for many organizations, including the Japan Society, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Exploratorium, Academy of Science, UC Berkeley, School of Architecture, and others. Jay is the author of Shoji, designing, building, and installing Japanese Screens. (Kodansha, ’86), Introduction to Japanese woodworking, (video, ’87), and contributing editor on The Complete Japanese Joinery, (Hartley & Marks, ’90). He also has written numerous magazine articles and appeared on Japanese and U.S. TV.<br />
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Jay is a licensed building contractor who lives with his wife and daughter in a bamboo grove in Oakland. Jay currently teaches Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery at Laney College in Oakland and is a founding member and on the board of directors of Kezuroukai USA, www.kezuroukai.ushttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=116962&date=2018-06-10Harp of Burma, Jul 25http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=117807&date=2018-07-25
A fatalistic elegy for the war dead, Harp of Burma links beauty with a sense of loss, and loss with salvation. Burma at the close of World War II is a no-man’s-land, a quiet emptiness where there used to be life. But the Himalayas still move villagers to dream, and captured Japanese soldiers to sing in sweet harmony; Burma is still “Buddha’s country.”http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=117807&date=2018-07-25ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: Go Hasegawa, Sep 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=118236&date=2018-09-05
Image: Chapel in Guastalla / Photo by Davide Galli<br />
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In his practice, Go Hasegawa always strives to explore new possibilities and relationships between different realms and build new connections. For him it is always a thrilling adventure which is only possible by engaging with a sense of openness which is an attitude he adopts towards all domains.<br />
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GO HASEGAWA is Director of <a href="http://ghaa.co.jp">Go Hasegawa and Associates</a>. He earned a Master of Engineering degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002 and worked at Taira Nishizawa Architects before establishing Go Hasegawa &amp; Associates in 2005. He has taught at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). In 2015, he received his PhD in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Hasegawa is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2008 Shinkenchiku Prize and 2014 AR Design Vanguard. Among the monographies are 'Go Hasegawa Works' (TOTO Publisher, 2012), ‘a+u 2017:01' (Issue n.556) and 'El Croquis - Go Hasegawa' (Issue n.191).<br />
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AWARDS<br />
2005 The Kajima Prize for SD Review 2005, for House in a Forest<br />
2007 Grand Prix, Tokyo Gas House Design Competition, for House in a Forest<br />
2007 Gold Prize in Residential Architecture Award, Tokyo Society of Architects &amp; Building Engineers, for House in a Forest<br />
2007 Gold Prize in The 28th INAX Design Contest, for House in Sakuradai<br />
2008 The 24th Shinkenchiku Prize, for House in Sakuradai<br />
2014 AR Design Vanguard 2014<br />
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WORKS<br />
2006 House in a Forest, Nagano, Japan<br />
2006 House in Sakuradai, Mie, Japan<br />
2006 House in Gotanda, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2009 House in Komae, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2010 Apartment in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2010 Pilotis in a Forest, Gunma, Japan<br />
2010 Townhouse in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2011 House in Komazawa, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2011 House in Kyodo, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2012 Nippon Design Center, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2012 Belfry in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan<br />
2013 House in Shakujiikouen, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2014 Row house in Ageo, Saitama, Japan<br />
2014 Apartment in Okachimachi, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2015 House in Sangenjaya, Tokyo, Japan<br />
2015 House in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan<br />
2016 Yoshino Cedar House, Nara, Japan<br />
2017 House in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan<br />
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This lecture is co-sponsored by the <a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/">Center for Japanese Studies</a>, and it is part of the Fall 2018 Berkeley Architecture Lecture Series. Open to all!<br />
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NOTE: The talk will also be live streaming in 106 Wurster in order to allow for possible overflow. <br />
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IMAGE: Apartment in Okachimachi | Photo by Takaya Sakano<br />
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http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=118236&date=2018-09-052018 AJLS Conference, Sep 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=117849&date=2018-09-06
<b>27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies <br />
Past, Present, and Future: Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media<br />
September 6-8, 2018<br />
University of California, Berkeley<br />
In Conjunction with the Kotenseki Seminar, Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library & Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies</b><br />
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The 2018 AJLS Conference seeks to address the history and theory of Japanese literature and media with special attention given to the ways in which writers have grappled with the problems of evidence, transmission, and inheritance and how these problems continue to renew and complicate the relation between the past, present, and future. <br />
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From questions surrounding lines of hermeneutic authority in secret transmission and early textual scholarship, to the emergence of new modes of inquiry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries based on models from late imperial China and early modern Europe, to the anxieties surrounding fears over the loss of cultural authority at various moments of rupture (both political and seismic) across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Japanese literature has been centrally preoccupied with the past and the future—how it can be known and transmitted—as well as with anxieties over forgery, inauthenticity, and cultural loss. Questions to be addressed include the following: <br />
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• What are the different types of evidence? When does evidence need persuasion? When does it become a symptom? <br />
• How might evidence encode reading practices? How do reading practices create evidence? <br />
• What constitutes evidence in Buddhist texts? What is the relationship between evidence and Buddhist doctrinal truth? What is scriptural evidence? <br />
• How do texts function as historical evidence? How do they foreshadow the future? How might evidence endure across generations and speak to the future?<br />
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The Keynote Address on September 6 and all panels on September 7-8 are open to the public. <a href="https://cjs090.wixsite.com/ajls2018/register">Registration is requested</a>.<br />
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<b>Thursday, September 6th</b><br />
<i>The afternoon Kotenseki Seminar is not open to the public</i><br />
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Address (Morrison Library)<br />
Robert Campbell, NIJL, Director General<br />
Tales of Transmission in Nineteenth Century Japanese Literature and Visual Art<br />
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Reception <br />
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<b>Friday, September 7th</b><br />
AJLS Conference Day 1<br />
"A" panels will be held in 180 Doe Library<br />
"B" panels and Keynote Panel will be held in 190 Doe Library<br />
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9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Introduction<br />
10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Panel 1<br />
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch<br />
1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2A<br />
1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2B<br />
Coffee Break 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm<br />
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3A <br />
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3B<br />
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Panel<br />
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<b>Saturday, September 8th</b><br />
AJLS Conference Day 2<br />
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"A" panels will be held in 180 Doe Library<br />
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"B" panels will be held in 190 Doe Library<br />
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9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4A<br />
9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4B<br />
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5A<br />
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5B<br />
12:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch<br />
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Panel 6<br />
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Panel 7 <br />
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Closing remarkshttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=117849&date=2018-09-062018 AJLS Conference, Sep 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=117850&date=2018-09-07
<b>27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies <br />
Past, Present, and Future: Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media<br />
September 6-8, 2018<br />
University of California, Berkeley<br />
In Conjunction with the Kotenseki Seminar, Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library & Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies</b><br />
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The 2018 AJLS Conference seeks to address the history and theory of Japanese literature and media with special attention given to the ways in which writers have grappled with the problems of evidence, transmission, and inheritance and how these problems continue to renew and complicate the relation between the past, present, and future. <br />
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From questions surrounding lines of hermeneutic authority in secret transmission and early textual scholarship, to the emergence of new modes of inquiry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries based on models from late imperial China and early modern Europe, to the anxieties surrounding fears over the loss of cultural authority at various moments of rupture (both political and seismic) across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Japanese literature has been centrally preoccupied with the past and the future—how it can be known and transmitted—as well as with anxieties over forgery, inauthenticity, and cultural loss. Questions to be addressed include the following: <br />
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• What are the different types of evidence? When does evidence need persuasion? When does it become a symptom? <br />
• How might evidence encode reading practices? How do reading practices create evidence? <br />
• What constitutes evidence in Buddhist texts? What is the relationship between evidence and Buddhist doctrinal truth? What is scriptural evidence? <br />
• How do texts function as historical evidence? How do they foreshadow the future? How might evidence endure across generations and speak to the future?<br />
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The Keynote Address on September 6 and all panels on September 7-8 are open to the public. <a href="https://cjs090.wixsite.com/ajls2018/register">Registration is requested</a>.<br />
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<b>Thursday, September 6th</b><br />
<i>The afternoon Kotenseki Seminar is not open to the public</i><br />
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Address (Morrison Library)<br />
Robert Campbell, NIJL, Director General<br />
Tales of Transmission in Nineteenth Century Japanese Literature and Visual Art<br />
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Reception <br />
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<b>Friday, September 7th</b><br />
AJLS Conference Day 1<br />
"A" panels will be held in 180 Doe Library<br />
"B" panels and Keynote Panel will be held in 190 Doe Library<br />
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9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Introduction<br />
10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Panel 1<br />
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch<br />
1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2A<br />
1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2B<br />
Coffee Break 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm<br />
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3A <br />
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3B<br />
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Panel<br />
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<b>Saturday, September 8th</b><br />
AJLS Conference Day 2<br />
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"A" panels will be held in 180 Doe Library<br />
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"B" panels will be held in 190 Doe Library<br />
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9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4A<br />
9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4B<br />
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5A<br />
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5B<br />
12:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch<br />
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Panel 6<br />
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Panel 7 <br />
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Closing remarkshttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=117850&date=2018-09-072018 AJLS Conference, Sep 8http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=117851&date=2018-09-08
<b>27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies <br />
Past, Present, and Future: Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media<br />
September 6-8, 2018<br />
University of California, Berkeley<br />
In Conjunction with the Kotenseki Seminar, Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library & Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies</b><br />
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The 2018 AJLS Conference seeks to address the history and theory of Japanese literature and media with special attention given to the ways in which writers have grappled with the problems of evidence, transmission, and inheritance and how these problems continue to renew and complicate the relation between the past, present, and future. <br />
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From questions surrounding lines of hermeneutic authority in secret transmission and early textual scholarship, to the emergence of new modes of inquiry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries based on models from late imperial China and early modern Europe, to the anxieties surrounding fears over the loss of cultural authority at various moments of rupture (both political and seismic) across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Japanese literature has been centrally preoccupied with the past and the future—how it can be known and transmitted—as well as with anxieties over forgery, inauthenticity, and cultural loss. Questions to be addressed include the following: <br />
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• What are the different types of evidence? When does evidence need persuasion? When does it become a symptom? <br />
• How might evidence encode reading practices? How do reading practices create evidence? <br />
• What constitutes evidence in Buddhist texts? What is the relationship between evidence and Buddhist doctrinal truth? What is scriptural evidence? <br />
• How do texts function as historical evidence? How do they foreshadow the future? How might evidence endure across generations and speak to the future?<br />
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The Keynote Address on September 6 and all panels on September 7-8 are open to the public. <a href="https://cjs090.wixsite.com/ajls2018/register">Registration is requested</a>.<br />
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<b>Thursday, September 6th</b><br />
<i>The afternoon Kotenseki Seminar is not open to the public</i><br />
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Address (Morrison Library)<br />
Robert Campbell, NIJL, Director General<br />
Tales of Transmission in Nineteenth Century Japanese Literature and Visual Art<br />
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Reception <br />
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<b>Friday, September 7th</b><br />
AJLS Conference Day 1<br />
"A" panels will be held in 180 Doe Library<br />
"B" panels and Keynote Panel will be held in 190 Doe Library<br />
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9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Introduction<br />
10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Panel 1<br />
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch<br />
1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2A<br />
1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2B<br />
Coffee Break 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm<br />
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3A <br />
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3B<br />
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Panel<br />
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<b>Saturday, September 8th</b><br />
AJLS Conference Day 2<br />
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"A" panels will be held in 180 Doe Library<br />
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"B" panels will be held in 190 Doe Library<br />
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9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4A<br />
9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4B<br />
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5A<br />
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5B<br />
12:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch<br />
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Panel 6<br />
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Panel 7 <br />
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Closing remarkshttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=117851&date=2018-09-08Exhibit Opening, Oct 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120364&date=2018-10-11
Come join us to help celebrate the opening of Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature?, an exhibition hosted in the lobby of Kroeber Hall in collaboration with curator <b>Liza Dalby</b> and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.<br />
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Does a dog have buddha nature?<br />
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Jōshū replied "MU!"<br />
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Inspired by this well-known Zen kōan, the MU KORABO (Mu Collaboration) project has joined calligraphy and art produced by an international range of artists in non-conventional renditions of the traditional Asian hanging scroll and sculptures in various media.<br />
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Mu, “nothingness,” lies at the heart of Buddhism. The character for mu is a favorite of calligraphers. It can be written in many styles, ranging from straight and clear to cursive and abstract. In this project, the dog represents the seeking self. The full moon is the Buddhist symbol of enlightenment.<br />
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<a href="www.mukorabo.com">www.mukorabo.com</a>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120364&date=2018-10-11Architecture Lecture: Takaharu Tezuka, Oct 15http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=119913&date=2018-10-15
<b>NOSTALGIC FUTURE</b><br />
Real human life is supported by latest technologies. Our good future is depending on the respect for the wisdom from our past. We are still a part of the whole environment, yet still in the most advanced society. <br />
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<b>ABOUT TAKAHARU TEZUKA</b><br />
Architect / President of Tezuka Architects / Professor of Tokyo City University<br />
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1964 Born in Tokyo, Japan<br />
1987 B. Arch., Musashi Institute of Technology<br />
1990 M. Arch., University of Pennsylvania<br />
1990-1994 Richard Rogers Partnership Ltd.<br />
1994 Founded Tezuka Architects with Yui Tezuka<br />
1996-2008 Associate Professor, Musahi Institute of Technology<br />
2009- Professor, Tokyo City University<br />
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<b>AWARDS</b><br />
The Best of All, OECD/CELE 4th Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities (2011, Fuji Kindergarten)<br />
Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan for Design (2008, Fuji Kindergarten)<br />
Japan Institute of Architects Award (2008, Fuji Kindergarten) (2015, Sora no Mori Clinic)<br />
AR Award 2004, the Architectural Review (Echigo-matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science)<br />
Good Design Gold Prize (1997, Soejima Hospital) (2013, Asahi Kindergarten)<br />
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2017<br />
Moriyama RAIC International Prize 2017<br />
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<b>EXHIBITIONS</b><br />
2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture<br />
2013 Carnegie International<br />
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<b>PUBLICATIONS</b><br />
Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architecture Catalogue 1-3. TOTO Publishing <br />
Takaharu + Yui Tezuka NOSTALGIC FUTURE ERINNERTE ZUKUNFT, Jovis, 2009.<br />
Tezuka Architects: The Yellow Book, Edited by Thomas Sherman & Greg Logan, Jovis, 2016<br />
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This lecture is co-sponsored by the College of Environmental Design and the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco, and it is part of the Fall 2018 Berkeley Architecture Lecture series. Open to all!http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=119913&date=2018-10-15Coping with Backlash Against Globalization: National and Firm Strategies, Oct 18-19, 2018http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=118488&date=2018-10-18
Thursday, October 18 9 am - 6 pm<br />
Friday, October 19 9 am - 1 pm<br />
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The rise of trade protectionism, authoritarianism, China, and data competition are all critical drivers of the global economy. We have seen the consequences of these drivers in the move to Brexit, the election of Trump, the promotion of rival trade and financial arrangements by the Chinese, and cyber operations that are a form of societal warfare. <br />
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The political and economic equilibria of an open trading system, relatively open immigration in Western states, and the acceptance of technological change as aggregate welfare-improving and liberalizing are all moving to disequilibrium. In this changing context, how national strategies and multinational corporations will interact, particularly with respect to technological competition, is of central importance.<br />
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This two-day conference, organized by Vinod K. Aggarwal, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, and Steve Weber addresses these new developments in the global economy. Participants will examine empirical trends in these key drivers with an eye to analyzing their likely impact. A second topic examines how the national strategies of key global players such as China, the US, EU, and India are likely to alter the context for multinational corporations from key Asian countries such as China, India, Japan and Korea. A third theme examines the technology strategies of countries and industrial policy, particularly with respect to data competition. The conference concludes with a forum with practitioners from leading MNCs on business-government relations in a new global context.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=118488&date=2018-10-18CANCELED: Forest Bathing with Hana Lee Goldin, Oct 31http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=118202&date=2018-10-31
Inspired by the Japanese practice of shinrin yoku, forest bathing has proven benefits for stress reduction, cognitive function, and emotional wellbeing. Forest bathing also offers us the opportunity to deepen our relationship with the natural world. By slowing down and opening up our senses, we begin to notice incredible things that may have eluded us for our whole lives. In escaping the rapid pace of our daily routines, we find unparalleled grace in the present moment and in doing so, relax into the beauty all around us. <br />
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On your walk, Hana Lee Goldin will offer a series of guided invitations to assist you in finding your own authentic way of interacting with the land at UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley. There’s no right or wrong way to do it, and it’s great for all ages; just come and be yourself. It’s all welcome in nature.<br />
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Hana Lee is a certified forest bathing guide who advocates and celebrates the restorative power of nature and is dedicated to repairing the human-nature disconnect. She empowers clients to integrate daily mindfulness and cultivate personal medicine through earth-based wellness practices. You can find more information at her website, www.TheSacredWilds.com. Her ancillary site, www.TheForestLibrary.com, gives you a deeper dive into the world of forest therapy and nature connection.<br />
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Happy trails!http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=118202&date=2018-10-31Study Abroad in Japan, Nov 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121170&date=2018-11-02
Come learn more about the possible study abroad options in Japan and opportunities to fund your study in Japan.<br />
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Hear what previous Japan study abroad students have to say about their experiences, answering questions like:<br />
Why study abroad in Japan?<br />
What are all of the opportunities and how can I learn more?<br />
How would this apply to my future career?<br />
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There will be a Q&A with panelists following the presentation. Panelists include:<br />
Prof. Khatharya Um, Director, Berkeley Study Abroad<br />
Ms. Andrea Preza, Study Abroad Advisor<br />
Ms. Mika Post, UC Berkeley former exchange student<br />
Mr. Ichiro Hashimoto, MEXT, Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco<br />
Ms. Yu Higashisawa, Osaka University, SF Office<br />
Mr. Chris Reed, Liaison OfficerJSPS (Japan Society forthe Promotion of Science), SF Office<br />
Mr. Steven Goldman, Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco <br />
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Want to learn more what it is like to study abroad in Japan? Check out Cal Bear Abroad Mika's story: http://studyabroad.berkeley.edu/story/student-profile/mika-post<br />
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Photo by Alice Chu, UCEAP- Japanhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121170&date=2018-11-02The Western and Questions of Indigeneity, Race and Violence in the American and Japanese Frontiers or, Two Unforgivens, Nov 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120799&date=2018-11-05
This presentation juxtaposes Clint Eastwood’s critically acclaimed <i>Unforgiven</i> (1992) against Lee Sang-il’s “remake” (<i>Yurusarezaru mono</i>, 2013) of the original as a method for recasting the histories of modern Japan and the U.S. as comparable and coeval settler colonial empires. The speaker will work through the insights and absences in these films to piece together a historical narrative that challenges the nationalist and historicist understandings of the Japanese and American pasts that are commonly found in popular culture and the writings of most historians. The presentation argues that Lee’s version, set in Hokkaidō, offers a more radical and challenging exploration of key themes in political thought taken up by Eastwood -- such as the violence of law, sovereign power, the right to kill, and historical memory and accountability – while foregrounding issues of indigeneity and settler colonialism. While Eastwood’s many Westerns are well known, <i>Yurusarezaru mono</i> is Lee’s only offering in this genre. Lee’s first film, <i>Chong</i>(1998, 2001), is in part based upon his own life growing up as an ethnic Korean in Japan. His more well-known films include <i>Hula Girl</i> (2006), <i>The Villain</i> (<i>Akunin</i>, 2010), and <i>Rage</i> (<i>Ikari</i>, 2016). <br />
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Takashi Fujitani holds the Dr. David Chu Chair in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is also Professor of History and Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies. His major works include: <i>Splendid Monarchy</i> (UC Press, 1996; Japanese version, NHK Books, 1994; Korean translation, Yeesan Press, 2003); <i>Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During WWII</i> (UC Press, 2011; Japanese and Korean versions forthcoming from Iwanami Shoten and Purun Yoksa); and <i>Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s)</i> (co-edited, Duke U. Press, 2001). He is also editor of the book series Asia Pacific Modern (UC Press). He has held numerous grants and fellowships, including from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Stanford Humanities Center, Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto U, Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine, and Social Science Research Council. During the spring quarter 2019, he will be the Paul I. Terasaki Chair in US-Japan Relations and Japanese Studies at UCLA. He is currently working on several books:<i>Whose ‘Good War’? a Postnationalist History of WWII in the Asia-Pacific; Sovereign Remains: the Emperor and Questions of Sovereignty in Twentieth Century Japan</i>; and <i>Cold War Clint: Asians, “Indians” and Others in the Imaginary World of an American Icon.</i>”http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120799&date=2018-11-05Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes, Nov 6http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120887&date=2018-11-06
The U.S.-led post-conflict transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific War’s aftermath has not only rendered certain violences illegible and unredressable. It also left many colonial legacies intact. In <i>Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes</i> I argued that, much more than products of the East Asian state policies capitalizing on the anti-Japanese sentiments or the ethnonational politics of recognition in North America, the transnational efforts especially intensifying since the1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese imperial violence must be seen as a trace of failed justice—in particular, the failure of decolonization—under the Cold War. This presentation considers the Japanese conservative revisionism in the transpacific “Comfort Women” redress culture. Once critiqued conjunctively across the categories and geographies separated by disciplinary divides, Japan’s revisionism and the post-1990s redress culture of which it is a part can reveal the disavowed history of violence and entanglement, while pointing to the limits of pursuing justice within the bounds of Cold War formations and their structuring legacies.<br />
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<b>Lisa Yoneyama</b> received Ph.D. in Anthropology at Stanford University (1993) and taught Cultural Studies at Literature Department, University of California, San Diego (1992-2011), where she also directed programs for the Japanese Studies and Critical Gender Studies. She joined the University of Toronto faculty in 2011 to teach East Asian Studies and Women & Gender Studies. Yoneyama published four books: <i>Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory</i> (University of California, 1999); a co-edited volume, <i>Perilous Memories: Asia-Pacific War(s)</i> (Duke University Press, 2001); <i>Violence, War, Redress: Politics of Multiculturalism</i> (published in Japanese, Iwanami Shoten, 2003); and most recently, <i>Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes</i> (Duke University Press, 2016) which received the 2018 Best Book Award in Humanities and Cultural Studies presented by the Association for Asian American Studies. Her research has been supported by many fellowships and grants, including SSRC-McArthur Foundation Fellowship in International Peace and Security, University of California Humanities Research Institute Resident Fellowship, etc. She is currently working on a paper that revisits some of the questions she has raised in <i>Hiroshima Traces</i> to newly explore what she calls the “post-Fukushima epistemologies” and consider the multivalent and uneven political implications of the emergent language, knowledge, and cultural practice that seek to connect various past and ongoing nuclear injuries and their disavowals.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120887&date=2018-11-06Workshop: Living Landscapes: Time, Knowledge, and Ecology, Nov 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121057&date=2018-11-09
<b>November 9 (Fri.): 1-5PM: Rm 101, 2251 College Building (Archaeological Research Facility), UC Berkeley<br />
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC<br />
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November 10 (Sat.): 9AM-12 noon: Rm 221, Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley (closed session; please RSVP: habu@berkeley.edu)</b><br />
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How can knowledge of the past be developed and transformed so that it informs understandings of the present and future? The Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley presents the workshop Living Landscapes: Time, Knowledge and Ecology. This workshop invites researchers in archaeology, anthropology, agroecology, sociology and geography to explore the ways in which different forms of environmental knowledge persist through time, are manifest in landscapes, and remain relevant to contemporary sustainability challenges.<br />
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Japan, a diverse archipelago with long history of human habitation and environmental modification, rich material cultural traditions and extensive archaeological record, is a special focus area for discussion. Case studies and comparative perspectives from other field areas are also welcome, and the workshop is open to anyone with interest in material culture studies, agroecology and the cultural-ecological dimensions of contemporary sustainability challenges.<br />
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This workshop is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF), with additional support from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Cultures (SISJAC), UK, and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan.<br />
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<b>November 9 (Fri.), 2018 (Rm 101, 2251 College Building [ARF]): <a href="https://junkohabu.com/2018/10/22/living-landscapes-program/">Abstract Page</a></b><br />
<b>OPEN TO THE PUBLIC</b><br />
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1:00-1:15 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks (Junko Habu and Jun Sunseri, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)<br />
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1:15-1:40 Simon Kaner (SISJAC): Re-imagining the Shinano: Discourses of Inhabitation along Japan’s Longest River<br />
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1:40-2:00 Junko Habu: Continuity and Change in Landscape Practices: Archaeological and Ethnographic Examples from Northeastern Japan<br />
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2:00-2:20 Kevin Gibbs (Hearst Museum, UC Berkeley): Changes and Challenges in the Late Neolithic Southern Levant: Excavations in Wadi Quseiba, Jordan<br />
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2:20-2:40 Kent Lightfoot (Anthropology, UC Berkeley): Rethinking the Stewardship of Public Lands in California: New Perspectives from Ancient Landscape Management Practices<br />
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2:40-3:00 Tea Break<br />
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3:00-3:20 Miguel Altieri (ESPM, UC Berkeley): Restoring agro- landscapes with agroecology <br />
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3:20-3:40 Mayumi Fukunaga (Sociocultural Environmental Studies, Univ. of Tokyo): Re-wilding Aquaculture: Negotiating and Re-imagining Seascape in Collaborative Local Knowledge Production and Action in Miyako Bay, Japan<br />
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3:40-4:00 Daniel Niles (RIHN): Linking the Mental and the Material: Patterns of Environmental Knowledge<br />
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4:00-5:00 Discussion (Discussant: Lisa Maher, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)<br />
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<b>November 10 (Sat.), 2018 (Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall): Closed Session (RSVP: habu@berkeley.edu)</b><br />
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9:00-9:30 Introduction (Daniel Niles, RIHN)<br />
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9:30-12:00 Discussion<br />
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<a href="https://junkohabu.com/2018/10/22/living-landscapes-program/">Read abstracts here.</a>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121057&date=2018-11-09ZenIT: Mindful Work through Zen Meditation and Collaboration, Nov 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121434&date=2018-11-09
CS alumnus Amil Khanzada, now Evolution Ambassador of Eiheiji Town in Japan, will talk about ZenIT, a new movement to define a style of working that is highly productive *and* peaceful, by combining Japanese Soto Zen meditation and Silicon Valley software development pairing/collaboration principles.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121434&date=2018-11-09Workshop: Living Landscapes: Time, Knowledge, and Ecology, Nov 10http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121058&date=2018-11-10
<b>November 9 (Fri.): 1-5PM: Rm 101, 2251 College Building (Archaeological Research Facility), UC Berkeley<br />
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC<br />
<br />
November 10 (Sat.): 9AM-12 noon: Rm 221, Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley (closed session; please RSVP: habu@berkeley.edu)</b><br />
<br />
How can knowledge of the past be developed and transformed so that it informs understandings of the present and future? The Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley presents the workshop Living Landscapes: Time, Knowledge and Ecology. This workshop invites researchers in archaeology, anthropology, agroecology, sociology and geography to explore the ways in which different forms of environmental knowledge persist through time, are manifest in landscapes, and remain relevant to contemporary sustainability challenges.<br />
<br />
Japan, a diverse archipelago with long history of human habitation and environmental modification, rich material cultural traditions and extensive archaeological record, is a special focus area for discussion. Case studies and comparative perspectives from other field areas are also welcome, and the workshop is open to anyone with interest in material culture studies, agroecology and the cultural-ecological dimensions of contemporary sustainability challenges.<br />
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This workshop is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF), with additional support from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Cultures (SISJAC), UK, and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan.<br />
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<b>November 9 (Fri.), 2018 (Rm 101, 2251 College Building [ARF]): <a href="https://junkohabu.com/2018/10/22/living-landscapes-program/">Abstract Page</a></b><br />
<b>OPEN TO THE PUBLIC</b><br />
<br />
1:00-1:15 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks (Junko Habu and Jun Sunseri, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)<br />
<br />
1:15-1:40 Simon Kaner (SISJAC): Re-imagining the Shinano: Discourses of Inhabitation along Japan’s Longest River<br />
<br />
1:40-2:00 Junko Habu: Continuity and Change in Landscape Practices: Archaeological and Ethnographic Examples from Northeastern Japan<br />
<br />
2:00-2:20 Kevin Gibbs (Hearst Museum, UC Berkeley): Changes and Challenges in the Late Neolithic Southern Levant: Excavations in Wadi Quseiba, Jordan<br />
<br />
2:20-2:40 Kent Lightfoot (Anthropology, UC Berkeley): Rethinking the Stewardship of Public Lands in California: New Perspectives from Ancient Landscape Management Practices<br />
<br />
2:40-3:00 Tea Break<br />
<br />
3:00-3:20 Miguel Altieri (ESPM, UC Berkeley): Restoring agro- landscapes with agroecology <br />
<br />
3:20-3:40 Mayumi Fukunaga (Sociocultural Environmental Studies, Univ. of Tokyo): Re-wilding Aquaculture: Negotiating and Re-imagining Seascape in Collaborative Local Knowledge Production and Action in Miyako Bay, Japan<br />
<br />
3:40-4:00 Daniel Niles (RIHN): Linking the Mental and the Material: Patterns of Environmental Knowledge<br />
<br />
4:00-5:00 Discussion (Discussant: Lisa Maher, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>November 10 (Sat.), 2018 (Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall): Closed Session (RSVP: habu@berkeley.edu)</b><br />
<br />
9:00-9:30 Introduction (Daniel Niles, RIHN)<br />
<br />
9:30-12:00 Discussion<br />
<br />
<a href="https://junkohabu.com/2018/10/22/living-landscapes-program/">Read abstracts here.</a>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121058&date=2018-11-10Industry-UCB-UEC Workshop 2018 (IUUWS 2018), Nov 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121384&date=2018-11-13
<b>Workshop Day 1: November 13 (Tues)</b><br />
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10:00 -10:30 Registration<br />
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10:30 -10:35 Opening Address:<br />
Prof. Kazuo UCHIDA, Executive Committee Chairman of IUUWS<br />
Department of Computer and Network Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, UEC<br />
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10:35 -10:45 Welcome Speech:<br />
Prof. Masayoshi TOMIZUKA<br />
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean of College of Engineering UCB<br />
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10:45 -11:25 Plenary Talk:<br />
Dr. Haruo TAKEDA<br />
Corporate Officer, Corporate Chief Engineer, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.<br />
(Speech: 30min. /Q and A: 10min.)<br />
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11:25 -12:05 Keynote Talk 1<br />
“Xilinx Adaptable Intelligence for Advanced Driver Assistance and Autonomous Systems”<br />
Dr. Dan Isaacs<br />
Director of Automotive Business Unit, Xilinx, US<br />
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)<br />
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12:05 -13:30 Lunch Break<br />
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13:30 -14:30 Session 1 (Bio-Engineering)<br />
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13:30 -14:30 1．”Daylight-triggered, passive and sustained delivery of therapeutically-relevant doses of the glaucoma drug timolol from a contact lens” Prof. Gerard Marriott, Department of Bioengineering, UCB<br />
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13:30 -14:30 2．” Advantage of NIR bioluminescence for in vivo imaging” Dr. Nobuo. Kitada, Department of Engineering Science, UEC<br />
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14:30 -15:10 Keynote Talk 2<br />
Mr. Goro Terumichi, CEO, ModuleX Inc. Japan<br />
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)<br />
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15:10 -16:10 Session 2 (Future luminary for sustainable society)<br />
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15:10 -15:40 1. “Circadian Rhythms in Modern Society” Mr. Robert Soler, VP Human Biological Technologies and Research, BIOS lighting, US<br />
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15:40 -16:10 2. “Simulation in Daylighting Design” Prof. Susan Ubbelohde, Department of Architecture, UCB<br />
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16:10-16-20 Closing session remark:<br />
Prof. Dana Buntrock, Dept of Architecture +Chair, Center for Japanese Studies, UCB<br />
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16:20 -16:40 Coffee Break (20min.)<br />
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16:40 -17:40 Session 3 (Semiconductor Materials and Systems) MEMS<br />
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16:40 -17:10 1．”Multi-Dimensional Gas Sensing Patterns of Graphene FETs” Ph.D candidate in Prof. L. Lin group, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB<br />
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17:10 -17:40 2．”Micro/Nano Fabrication Environment in UEC, Plasmonic and Metamaterial Devices for Optical Sensor Applications,” Associate Professor Tetsuo Kan, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, UEC<br />
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<b>Workshop Day 2: November 14 (Wed)</b><br />
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10:00 -10:40 Registration<br />
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10:40 -13:20 Session 4 (Introduction of UCB and UEC Research Activities)<br />
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10:40 -11:10 1. “UCB College of Engineering, Models of International Partnerships” Anthony St. George, Ph.D., Assistant Dean, International and Corporate Partnerships College of Engineering, UCB<br />
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11:10 -11:40 2. “UEC Strategy, “D, C and I” to a Super Smart Society” Prof. Sei-ichi SHIN, Dean, School of Informatics and Engineering, UEC<br />
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11:40 -12:50 Lunch Break<br />
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12:50 -13:30 Keynote Talk 3<br />
“Scene Application of Service Robot + AI”<br />
Mr. Yugang Song, CEO, Suzhou Pangolin Robot Corp.,Ltd , China)<br />
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)<br />
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13:30-15:00 Session 5 (Robotics and Engineering for High-Quality Life Services)<br />
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13:30-14:00 1. “Robotics Research at the University of California, Berkeley” Prof. Masayoshi TOMIZUKA, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB<br />
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14:00-14:30 2. “Constructing Breakthrough Technology: Human Coexistence with General Artificial Intelligence" Prof. Satoshi Kurihara, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University<br />
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14:30-15:00 3. “Developing a Mobile App for Cars" Mr. Justin Sinaguinan, Honda R&D Americas, Inc.<br />
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15:00-15:20 Coffee Break<br />
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15:20-15:30 Closing Remarks:<br />
Prof. Kazushi Nakano, Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors, UEChttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121384&date=2018-11-13Rewriting History in the Age of #MeToo, Nov 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120960&date=2018-11-13
The #MeToo movement is now over a year old, but over the past few weeks its stakes have become increasingly clear, not only in American culture and politics but also in many of our intellectual lives as historians. This talk considers how the rallying call “believe women” challenges our epistemology and might lead us to a different approach to our evidence. The sources are drawn from an early nineteenth-century Buddhist temple in rural Japan, but the problem they present is familiar to both historians and feminist activists: sexual assault often causes a rupture or fracturing of conventional narrative. What do we do with the silences and changing accounts? Which stories do we tell? And, ultimately, who do we believe?<br />
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Amy Stanley is an associate professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University, where she teaches Japanese and global history. Her publications include <em>Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan</em> (University of California Press, 2012) and articles in <em>The American Historical Review</em>, <em>The Journal of Asian Studies</em>, and <em>The Journal of Japanese Studies</em>. She is currently at work on a new book, <em>Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her Worlds</em>, which is forthcoming from Scribner in 2020.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120960&date=2018-11-13Industry-UCB-UEC Workshop 2018 (IUUWS 2018), Nov 14http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121385&date=2018-11-14
<b>Workshop Day 1: November 13 (Tues)</b><br />
<br />
10:00 -10:30 Registration<br />
<br />
10:30 -10:35 Opening Address:<br />
Prof. Kazuo UCHIDA, Executive Committee Chairman of IUUWS<br />
Department of Computer and Network Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, UEC<br />
<br />
10:35 -10:45 Welcome Speech:<br />
Prof. Masayoshi TOMIZUKA<br />
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean of College of Engineering UCB<br />
<br />
10:45 -11:25 Plenary Talk:<br />
Dr. Haruo TAKEDA<br />
Corporate Officer, Corporate Chief Engineer, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.<br />
(Speech: 30min. /Q and A: 10min.)<br />
<br />
11:25 -12:05 Keynote Talk 1<br />
“Xilinx Adaptable Intelligence for Advanced Driver Assistance and Autonomous Systems”<br />
Dr. Dan Isaacs<br />
Director of Automotive Business Unit, Xilinx, US<br />
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)<br />
<br />
12:05 -13:30 Lunch Break<br />
<br />
13:30 -14:30 Session 1 (Bio-Engineering)<br />
<br />
13:30 -14:30 1．”Daylight-triggered, passive and sustained delivery of therapeutically-relevant doses of the glaucoma drug timolol from a contact lens” Prof. Gerard Marriott, Department of Bioengineering, UCB<br />
<br />
13:30 -14:30 2．” Advantage of NIR bioluminescence for in vivo imaging” Dr. Nobuo. Kitada, Department of Engineering Science, UEC<br />
<br />
14:30 -15:10 Keynote Talk 2<br />
Mr. Goro Terumichi, CEO, ModuleX Inc. Japan<br />
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)<br />
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15:10 -16:10 Session 2 (Future luminary for sustainable society)<br />
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15:10 -15:40 1. “Circadian Rhythms in Modern Society” Mr. Robert Soler, VP Human Biological Technologies and Research, BIOS lighting, US<br />
<br />
15:40 -16:10 2. “Simulation in Daylighting Design” Prof. Susan Ubbelohde, Department of Architecture, UCB<br />
<br />
16:10-16-20 Closing session remark:<br />
Prof. Dana Buntrock, Dept of Architecture +Chair, Center for Japanese Studies, UCB<br />
<br />
16:20 -16:40 Coffee Break (20min.)<br />
<br />
16:40 -17:40 Session 3 (Semiconductor Materials and Systems) MEMS<br />
<br />
16:40 -17:10 1．”Multi-Dimensional Gas Sensing Patterns of Graphene FETs” Ph.D candidate in Prof. L. Lin group, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB<br />
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17:10 -17:40 2．”Micro/Nano Fabrication Environment in UEC, Plasmonic and Metamaterial Devices for Optical Sensor Applications,” Associate Professor Tetsuo Kan, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, UEC<br />
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<b>Workshop Day 2: November 14 (Wed)</b><br />
<br />
10:00 -10:40 Registration<br />
<br />
10:40 -13:20 Session 4 (Introduction of UCB and UEC Research Activities)<br />
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10:40 -11:10 1. “UCB College of Engineering, Models of International Partnerships” Anthony St. George, Ph.D., Assistant Dean, International and Corporate Partnerships College of Engineering, UCB<br />
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11:10 -11:40 2. “UEC Strategy, “D, C and I” to a Super Smart Society” Prof. Sei-ichi SHIN, Dean, School of Informatics and Engineering, UEC<br />
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11:40 -12:50 Lunch Break<br />
<br />
12:50 -13:30 Keynote Talk 3<br />
“Scene Application of Service Robot + AI”<br />
Mr. Yugang Song, CEO, Suzhou Pangolin Robot Corp.,Ltd , China)<br />
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)<br />
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13:30-15:00 Session 5 (Robotics and Engineering for High-Quality Life Services)<br />
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13:30-14:00 1. “Robotics Research at the University of California, Berkeley” Prof. Masayoshi TOMIZUKA, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB<br />
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14:00-14:30 2. “Constructing Breakthrough Technology: Human Coexistence with General Artificial Intelligence" Prof. Satoshi Kurihara, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University<br />
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14:30-15:00 3. “Developing a Mobile App for Cars" Mr. Justin Sinaguinan, Honda R&D Americas, Inc.<br />
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15:00-15:20 Coffee Break<br />
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15:20-15:30 Closing Remarks:<br />
Prof. Kazushi Nakano, Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors, UEChttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121385&date=2018-11-14JASC and KASC 2019 Information Session, Nov 15http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121277&date=2018-11-15
Interested in going to Japan or Korea this summer?<br />
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Scholarships are available for UC Berkeley students attending the Japan-America or Korea-America Student Conference!<br />
Hear more about these exciting programs from past participants.<br />
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Pizza will also be provided! <br />
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Please RSVP via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/309449906327244">Facebook</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cjs/jasc.html">More information on the JASC Scholarship here.</a>http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121277&date=2018-11-15The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Three Films, Nov 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121390&date=2018-11-28
What are the experiences that shape the long lives of those we live among? In The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors, my ninety-two-year-old neighbor recounts the experience of being one of the first US Navy seamen sent into Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two weeks after the atom bombs were dropped. His intimate testimony is paired here with two films exploring two other catastrophic events of World War II—the internment of Japanese Americans and the “death march” of prisoners out of Auschwitz. In each, witnesses struggle to articulate these shattering experiences that were central to their lives. Using interviews, photographs, and archival film, these films explore the process of bringing into the present fragmented and enigmatic memories of personal and collective trauma as they continue to reverberate across generations.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121390&date=2018-11-28The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan—Summer in Sanrizuka, Nov 29http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121391&date=2018-11-29
Shinsuke Ogawa “has been unaccountably neglected in the Western world. . . . [His is an] extraordinary, incisive, and deeply committed body of work" (Jed Rapfogel, Anthology Film Archives). In 1968, Ogawa and the new filmmaking collective Ogawa Pro “followed a brigade of student activists and joined the growing movement of resistance by the farmers and their allies against the forced eviction from their lands to build a new international airport in Narita, near Tokyo. Summer in Sanrizuka is a call-to-arms, a raucous film shot during the first land surveys and the first clashes between the airport authorities and the protesters. The film shows how the students and the farmers were able to forge an alliance and find common ground in order to organize and strengthen their cooperative struggle” (Cinéma du Réel).http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121391&date=2018-11-29Come on Out Japan - Information Session, Nov 30http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121718&date=2018-11-30
Attention students and recent graduates!<br />
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The 5th Annual Come on Out-Japan Summer Internship Program is launching and they are extending an invitation to top Universities and Japanese high school students for a cross-cultural learning experience. They will be on campus Friday, November 30 at Barrows Hall, Room 54 from 4 - 6 pm and hope to see you there! See the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2290907427795461/">Facebook Event</a> pages for further details.<br />
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They are currently seeking University students and recent graduates with native level English skills, who would be interested in coming to Japan for 6 weeks from mid-July to late August, 2019. Although this is an unpaid internship, the sponsor is providing certain expenses for each intern who participates in the six-week program. In addition to airfare, lodging, meal and transportation subsidies, the program offers optional Japanese language classes, field trips, dinner/cooking nights and at least one overnight trip. These additional opportunities are all designed to add cultural enrichment to your summer abroad experience.<br />
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This program is truly different from any other traditional teaching positions in Japan. Interns will facilitate English conversations with Japanese high school students on a variety of relevant global topics ranging from discussing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to finding their personal life missions. As mentors, interns will truly impact new students each week as well as form lifelong connections with their fellow interns.<br />
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There are no Japanese fluency requirements and they accept undergraduate, graduate and recent graduate students.<br />
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See links below for more information. If you have additional questions regarding the program, please contact Come on Out - Japan directly or via our inquiry tab on our website. You can find our application starting November 1 at www.comeonoutjapan.com!http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121718&date=2018-11-30Calligraphy Workshop - SOLD OUT, Dec 1http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120992&date=2018-12-01
Alongside the current exhibit, <i>Face to Face: Looking at Objects that Look at You</i>, the Hearst Museum has prepared an accompanying exhibit in the lobby of Kroeber Hall at UC Berkeley, just outside of the Hearst’s Main Gallery. This exhibit, entitled <i>Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature?</i> is curated by Liza Dalby and hosted in collaboration with the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley. <br />
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The MU KORABO (Mu Collaboration) project features art by a range of international artists, joining calligraphy with unconventional renditions of the traditional Asian hanging scroll and sculptures. The exhibit is inspired by this well-known Zen kōan:<br />
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“Does a dog have buddha nature?”<br />
Jōshū replied "MU!"<br />
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Mu, which means “nothingness”, lies at the heart of Buddhism. The character for mu is malleable and appears in many styles, ranging from straight and clear to cursive and abstract.<br />
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Related to this exhibit will be a calligraphy workshop by Pamela Rickard, which will be held on December 1st from 1-3pm. This workshop is free with museum admission.<br />
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Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Visitor Information<br />
102 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720<br />
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Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.<br />
Saturdays, 10 a.m, to 6 p.m.<br />
hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu<br />
(510) 643-1191<br />
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$6 general admission<br />
$3 non-UC Berkeley students, UC Berkeley alumni, 65+<br />
Free for all UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff; 18 & underhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=120992&date=2018-12-01CripTech: Disability and Technology in Japan and the United States, Dec 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121795&date=2018-12-07
Technology has the potential to greatly improve access and the full social participation of disabled individuals in Japan and the United States. Both countries have invested considerable sums in these directions, but often this research is being conducted separately from the key stakeholders. This symposium brings together technologists, anthropologists, educators, and other researchers who are working on the nexus of technology, access, and design in Japan together with scholars, engineers, researchers, and activists in the United States for a four-day symposium and workshop in Berkeley, California, the home of the independent living movement. The majority of the participants identify as disabled people. <br />
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For an accessible version of this information, please go to this website: <a href="http://www.disability.jp/index2.html">http://www.disability.jp/index2.html</a><br />
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<b>Friday December 7 - Conference Day One</b><br />
<i>Open to the Public – no pre-registration needed</i><br />
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9:00 Coffee and Pastries <br />
9:15 Opening remarks: Dana Buntrock (CJS), Toru Tamiya (JSPS), and Karen Nakamura (DisStudies) <br />
9:30 Panel 1: Neurodiversity and Technologies of Inclusion and Access <br />
9:30 Kumagaya Shin'ichiro– Introduction to Tojisha-kenkyu (User-led Research) in Japan: Co-creating narratives within the invisible minority community<br />
9:50 Ayaya Satsuki– Toward Inclusive Society and Culture for Autism Spectrum: Tojisha-kenkyu (User-led Research) on Social Majority and Accessible Information Design<br />
10:10 Brent White – Technology x Mental Health Care -Why we do it, what we do, what we will be doing<br />
10:30 Laura Harrison– Neurodivergent Co-Participatory Research<br />
10:50 Panel discussion and Q&A<br />
11:30 Break<br />
1:00 ​Plenaries on Inclusive Spaces and Universal Design<br />
1:00 Yoshihiko Kawauchi– Universal Design in Japan<br />
1:30 Aimi Hamraie*– Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability<br />
2:00 Q&A<br />
2:30 Break<br />
3:00p Deej film screening (73 minutes)<br />
4:15 David Savarese* - listen2us.net – literacy, self-determination and interdependence for non-speakers<br />
5:00 Conference Day One ends<br />
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<b>Saturday December 8 - Conference Day Two</b><br />
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8:50 Coffee and Pastries <br />
9:00 Fixed Film Screening (60 min) w/ introduction by director Regan Brashear<br />
10:00 Discussion on Transhumanism, Feminism, and Crip Futurities<br />
Gregor Wolbring*, Liz Henry, Ian Smith | Moderator: Franky Spektor<br />
10:45 Plenary on Disability Centered Design<br />
Chris Downey– Universal Design and the BVI Perspective<br />
Q&A<br />
11:30 Break<br />
1:00 Plenary<br />
Ayako Shimizu– Technology x Mental Health Care -Why we do it, what we do, what we will be doing”<br />
Q&A<br />
1:45 Panel 2: Care Robotics, Human-Computer Relations, and AI<br />
1:45 Ninon Lambert- Who cares? Exploring the entanglements of interaction and care with social robots in nursing homes<br />
2:05 Grant Otsuki*- Human-Machine Interfacing as Utopian Practice in Japan <br />
2:25 Disscussant: Valerie Black <br />
2:45 Break<br />
3:00 Panel 3: Crip Futurities<br />
3:00 Asa Ito– Disabled person’s Interaction with objects and self-governance<br />
3:20 Lucy Greco - Talk title TBA<br />
3:40 Abigail Cochran– People with Disabilities' Use of On-Demand Transportation Services<br />
4:00 Sondra Solovay- Disability Tech at the Margins: Weighing Our Options<br />
<i>Note: Due to unforseen circumstances, Dr. Miele is unable to attend</i><br />
4:20 Discussion<br />
5:00 Closing Remarks: Karen Nakamura (DisStudies) <br />
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* Speakers indicated with an asterisk * will be attending via teleconference or telecommunication.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121795&date=2018-12-07Immigration Policy in Japan and South Korea, Dec 7http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121897&date=2018-12-07
Immigration policies drastically expanded in Japan and South Korea, but the reality migrant workers face in both countries are not as promising. The general resistance of unskilled immigration and the demands of labor shortages and shrinking populations have been accommodated with ad hoc governmental policies. Under the supervision of Professor Keiko Yamanaka, Margaux, Maya and Eun Seo have been taking on research this Fall looking into the glaring contradiction between these governmental policies and working conditions. Margaux is interested in the new influx of low-skilled workers via the new TPI (Technical and Practical Interns) program, and how it was motivated by the aging population crisis Japan is currently facing. Having spent 8 years in Japan, Maya is interested in understanding the working conditions of migrant workers and the role of the Nikkei community. Eun Seo has been interested in the relationship between Nepal and South Korea since the number of Nepalese workers has rapidly increased after the implementation of the EPS (Employment Permit System). Along with the insight from Nepalese Scholar, Himali Dixit, on the history and working conditions in Nepal, Margaux, Maya, and Eun Seo will break down the similarities and differences of immigration policies, the consequences and responses, and provide insights looking forward!http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121897&date=2018-12-07CripTech: Disability and Technology in Japan and the United States, Dec 8http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121796&date=2018-12-08
Technology has the potential to greatly improve access and the full social participation of disabled individuals in Japan and the United States. Both countries have invested considerable sums in these directions, but often this research is being conducted separately from the key stakeholders. This symposium brings together technologists, anthropologists, educators, and other researchers who are working on the nexus of technology, access, and design in Japan together with scholars, engineers, researchers, and activists in the United States for a four-day symposium and workshop in Berkeley, California, the home of the independent living movement. The majority of the participants identify as disabled people. <br />
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For an accessible version of this information, please go to this website: <a href="http://www.disability.jp/index2.html"> http://www.disability.jp/index2.html</a><br />
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<b>Friday December 7 - Conference Day One</b><br />
<i>Open to the Public – no pre-registration needed</i><br />
<br />
9:00 Coffee and Pastries <br />
9:15 Opening remarks: Dana Buntrock (CJS), Toru Tamiya (JSPS), and Karen Nakamura (DisStudies) <br />
9:30 Panel 1: Neurodiversity and Technologies of Inclusion and Access <br />
9:30 Kumagaya Shin'ichiro– Introduction to Tojisha-kenkyu (User-led Research) in Japan: Co-creating narratives within the invisible minority community<br />
9:50 Ayaya Satsuki– Toward Inclusive Society and Culture for Autism Spectrum: Tojisha-kenkyu (User-led Research) on Social Majority and Accessible Information Design<br />
10:10 Brent White – Technology x Mental Health Care -Why we do it, what we do, what we will be doing<br />
10:30 Laura Harrison– Neurodivergent Co-Participatory Research<br />
10:50 Panel discussion and Q&A<br />
11:30 Break<br />
1:00 ​Plenaries on Inclusive Spaces and Universal Design<br />
1:00 Yoshihiko Kawauchi– Universal Design in Japan<br />
1:30 Aimi Hamraie*– Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability<br />
2:00 Q&A<br />
2:30 Break<br />
3:00p Deej film screening (73 minutes)<br />
4:15 David Savarese* - listen2us.net – literacy, self-determination and interdependence for non-speakers<br />
5:00 Conference Day One ends<br />
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<b>Saturday December 8 - Conference Day Two</b><br />
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8:50 Coffee and Pastries <br />
9:00 Fixed Film Screening (60 min) w/ introduction by director Regan Brashear<br />
10:00 Discussion on Transhumanism, Feminism, and Crip Futurities<br />
Gregor Wolbring*, Liz Henry, Ian Smith | Moderator: Franky Spektor<br />
10:45 Plenary on Disability Centered Design<br />
Chris Downey– Universal Design and the BVI Perspective<br />
Q&A<br />
11:30 Break<br />
1:00 Plenary<br />
Ayako Shimizu– Technology x Mental Health Care -Why we do it, what we do, what we will be doing”<br />
Q&A<br />
1:45 Panel 2: Care Robotics, Human-Computer Relations, and AI<br />
1:45 Ninon Lambert- Who cares? Exploring the entanglements of interaction and care with social robots in nursing homes<br />
2:05 Grant Otsuki*- Human-Machine Interfacing as Utopian Practice in Japan <br />
2:25 Disscussant: Valerie Black <br />
2:45 Break<br />
3:00 Panel 3: Crip Futurities<br />
3:00 Asa Ito– Disabled person’s Interaction with objects and self-governance<br />
3:20 Lucy Greco - Talk title TBA<br />
3:40 Abigail Cochran– People with Disabilities' Use of On-Demand Transportation Services<br />
4:00 Sondra Solovay- Disability Tech at the Margins: Weighing Our Options<br />
<i>Note: Due to unforseen circumstances, Dr. Miele is unable to attend</i><br />
4:20 Discussion<br />
5:00 Closing Remarks: Karen Nakamura (DisStudies) <br />
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* Speakers indicated with an asterisk * will be attending via teleconference or telecommunication.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121796&date=2018-12-08Ugetsu, Dec 12http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121593&date=2018-12-12
In sixteenth-century Japan, with the pandemonium of civil wars a looming presence in their lives, the potter Genjuro and his wife long to be “rich and safe,” respectively. But artistic vanity draws Genjuro into the paradisiacal realm of a phantom enchantress. In a parallel tale, Genjuro’s brother-in-law Tobei, out for military glory, achieves a general’s rank for his fraudulent exploits—another acrid apparition. In Ugetsu, the all-too-real and the supernatural move steadily toward each other; a boat ride on foggy waters foreshadows the horizontal unity Mizoguchi will give his two worlds. For, just as his images overflow with life—characters forever running off toward more life outside the frame—so this reality flows into the phantom universe as well. Mizoguchi builds an eerie netherworld entirely out of what he is given in this one: shadows and lighting, decor and texture, and the graceful chicanery of human desire.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121593&date=2018-12-12Gallery Talk: Elizabeth Sharf on the Japanese Collection, Dec 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121936&date=2018-12-13
Elizabeth Sharf, a visiting scholar in UC Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies, offers a tour of Ink, Paper, Silk illustrating the breadth and depth of the museum’s important collection of Japanese art. Highlights will include Nagasawa Rosetsu’s engaging Children Playing with an Elephant, Okamoto Shuki’s lyrical White Swallows by a Waterfall, and examples of Obaku calligraphy—seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Zen-inspired calligraphy created by monks who came to Japan from China.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121936&date=2018-12-13Sansho the Bailiff, Dec 15http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121673&date=2018-12-15
In eleventh-century Japan, two children are kidnapped and sold into slavery while their mother, Tamiki, withers away on a distant island, dreaming only of being reunited with them. After many years the son assumes his rightful post as provincial governor and sets about deposing the cruel bailiff who brought tragedy upon his family. As in Greek tragedy, this film’s distanced determinism vies with the direct engagement of the characters to affect the richest form of drama, a purity of emotion. In Mizoguchi’s films, it has been noted, the long shot is as psychologically astute as the close-up. As Tamiki, Kinuyo Tanaka haunts; her presence is felt largely through her absence. Banished to an off-screen hell, she is nonetheless perceived, not as an apparition but as a feeling, like a voice carried by the wind.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121673&date=2018-12-15Sanshiro Sugata, Dec 18http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121675&date=2018-12-18
Akira Kurosawa made his directorial debut in 1943, during the height of World War II and at a time when “you weren’t allowed to say anything worth saying,” as he recalled. “Back then everyone was saying that the Japanese-style film should be as simple as possible; I disagreed and decided that, since I couldn’t say anything because of the censors, I would make a really movie-like movie.” Concerning a hero’s awakening and embrace of a larger ideal (in this case, judo), Sanshiro Sugata has a dazzling cinematic energy that is already pure Kurosawa, complete with novel fight scenes (one done entirely in darkness and shadow, another shot on a windswept, grassy mountainside) and a remarkable control of filmic techniques for capturing emotion, space, and time; one montage of a pair of discarded sandals, for instance, conveys the passing of the seasons with an economy as simple and pure as a line of poetry. Within these eighty minutes lies the foundation of an entire career.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121675&date=2018-12-18Spirited Away, Dec 29http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121917&date=2018-12-29
Ever the nostalgic fabulist, Hayao Miyazaki builds a passage between modern, everyday Japanese life and the half-remembered realms of spirits and folklore in this compelling adventure, winner of numerous international prizes including the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. En route to their new suburban home, ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom. When Mom and Dad undergo a terrible transformation, Chihiro’s only chance to save them, and herself, is to become a servant in a bathhouse frequented by millions of gods. Chihiro adapts by trial and error to the rules and culture of a place where little is what it initially seems. As always, Miyazaki makes this fantastic world feel utterly real, populating it with complex, mutable characters, precisely calibrating visual details, and infusing an allegorical yet organic plot with nuanced emotion.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121917&date=2018-12-29Double Suicide, Dec 29http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121920&date=2018-12-29
Masahiro Shinoda’s first film for Japan’s avant-garde Art Theatre Guild, Double Suicide strikingly reinterprets Monzaemon Chikamatsu’s famed 1720 bunraku puppet play involving the doomed love between a married paper-shop owner and a courtesan; here, it’s not just the play that is presented, but the entire presentation of the play. We begin with the kurogo (men dressed in black who traditionally maneuver the puppets) assembling the stage; soon, however, live actors replace the puppets, though they too are controlled by the kurogo. Toru Takemitsu’s jarring score heightens the film’s Brechtian, abstract distancing of “story” and “telling,” as does the minimal set design by Kiyoshi Awazu; by the end, only the kurogo’s anguish remains. “Double Suicide extends Chikamatsu’s concerns to include ethics versus eroticism,” wrote Albert Johnson, “a thralldom timelessly enacted behind the mystery of empty streets and houses, beyond the anonymity of human crowds.”http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121920&date=2018-12-29Get Dancin’: Selections from the Collection, thru Mar 31http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122214&date=2019-01-09
The exuberance, romance, and beauty of dance are central themes in this exhibition of historical and contemporary works from BAMPFA’s collection. The selection is wide ranging, including prints, drawings, and photographs from the United States, Europe, and Asia. Among the highlights are two classic photographs of José Limón and Martha Graham by Barbara Morgan; George Bellows’s raucous image Dance in a Madhouse; a recently acquired drawing by Berkeley native Ariel Parkinson; and several rare Japanese prints depicting dance ceremonies and rituals. The exhibition complements a season of dance programming in the Full series of performances, which takes place in the museum on the evening of every full moon.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122214&date=2019-01-09Masako Miki / MATRIX 273, thru Apr 28http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122216&date=2019-01-09
Masako Miki was born in Japan but has made the Bay Area, and Berkeley in particular, her home for more than twenty years. In her work she remains close to her ancestral traditions, especially those that arise from her association with Buddhist and Shinto beliefs and practices, as well as traditional Japanese folklore. Her current work, she says, is “inspired by the idea of animism from the Shinto belief of yaoyorozu no kami [eight million gods] who are both good and evil with a wide range of personalities.” In defining this world of shifting boundaries, Miki creates larger-than-life-size, felt-covered forms drawn from the Japanese folk belief in yokai (shape-shifters) who can disguise themselves in any number of different forms. Miki creates the semi-abstract, sculptural forms utilizing brilliant colors and sets them into a magical environment suggesting another reality. The installation moves from the three-dimensional forms to abstract images on the floor and walls, conveying a sense of expanding boundaries.<br />
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Walking around and among the large forms in the gallery, visitors feel the sense of changing perception between the forms and images as they morph and shift between two and three dimensions. The installation reflects Miki’s interest in and connection to Shinto traditions of the interrelatedness of all beings, animate and inanimate, in the universe.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122216&date=2019-01-09Harakiri, Jan 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121954&date=2019-01-09
Based on the Puccini opera Madame Butterfly (but changing the title character from geisha to noblewoman) and one of the first European films to depict Japanese culture, Harakiri was considered a lost film for decades until it was discovered in the mid-1980s in the Netherlands Film Museum. Intrigued with Asian design motifs and obsessed with authenticity, Lang obtained sets and costumes from the Hamburg Anthropological Museum to help create his fantasia of the Orient, filmed on the outskirts of Berlin. “Refreshingly stereotype-free, the film demonstrates that silent film can rival opera in emotional impact” (Tom Vick).http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121954&date=2019-01-09Ugetsu, Jan 13http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122231&date=2019-01-13
In sixteenth-century Japan, with the pandemonium of civil wars a looming presence in their lives, the potter Genjuro and his wife long to be “rich and safe,” respectively. But artistic vanity draws Genjuro into the paradisiacal realm of a phantom enchantress. In a parallel tale, Genjuro’s brother-in-law Tobei, out for military glory, achieves a general’s rank for his fraudulent exploits—another acrid apparition. In Ugetsu, the all-too-real and the supernatural move steadily toward each other; a boat ride on foggy waters foreshadows the horizontal unity Mizoguchi will give his two worlds. For, just as his images overflow with life—characters forever running off toward more life outside the frame—so this reality flows into the phantom universe as well. Mizoguchi builds an eerie netherworld entirely out of what he is given in this one: shadows and lighting, decor and texture, and the graceful chicanery of human desire.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122231&date=2019-01-13Artist’s Talk: Masako Miki, Jan 16http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122232&date=2019-01-16
In conjunction with her current MATRIX exhibition, Japan-born, Berkeley-based artist Masako Miki will talk about Shinto traditions in Japan, how they address questions of boundaries in life, and how these ideas have developed and manifested in her felt sculptures and installation work.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122232&date=2019-01-16Harp of Burma, Jan 17http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122235&date=2019-01-17
A fatalistic elegy for the war dead, Harp of Burma links beauty with a sense of loss, and loss with salvation. Burma at the close of World War II is a no-man’s-land, a quiet emptiness where there used to be life. But the Himalayas still move villagers to dream and captured Japanese soldiers to sing in sweet harmony; Burma is still “Buddha’s country.” Mizushima, a harp-playing scout with the Japanese, is dispatched by the British to inform an obstinate fighting unit of Japan’s surrender. He arrives too late. What this simple man encounters leaves him gripped by an obsession, fated not to return home with his regiment but rather to remain in Burma as a monk, to bury the dead, pray for their souls, and in this way alleviate their suffering. In its haunting visuals shot against the large, gentle Buddhas of Burma, the film suggests that perspective is all: faced with death’s enormity, a soldier becomes a traveler through this world.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122235&date=2019-01-17Cafe Lumiere, Jan 26http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122255&date=2019-01-26
Coffee, Time, and Light is the original Japanese title of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s gentle tribute to Yasujiro Ozu, which seamlessly weaves those three themes into a meditative look at love—or the absence of it—in contemporary Tokyo. Living alone in the city, the strong-willed Yoko (pop singer Yo Hitoto) wanders its streets, coffee houses, and train stations, seemingly paying more attention to random sights than she does to conversations with her parents, with her main friend a just-as-quiet bookstore clerk (Tadanobu Asano). A city film that takes its power not from the bustle of urban energy, but from the quietude that one can still find within it, Café Lumière captures a certain kind of urban solitude experienced by those who are alone, but never lonely, with all of life’s wonders—like coffee, music, and light—around them. Commissioned to mark the centenary of Ozu’s birth—the film even opens with the old Shochiku logo of the era—this is not only a tribute to that great master, but a continuation of his works. “The plot is spare,” wrote Jonathan Rosenbaum, “but the sounds, images, and ambience are indelible.”http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122255&date=2019-01-26Double Suicide, Jan 27http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122258&date=2019-01-27
Masahiro Shinoda’s first film for Japan’s avant-garde Art Theatre Guild, Double Suicide strikingly reinterprets Monzaemon Chikamatsu’s famed 1720 bunraku puppet play involving the doomed love between a married paper-shop owner and a courtesan; here, it’s not just the play that is presented, but the entire presentation of the play. We begin with the kurogo (men dressed in black who traditionally maneuver the puppets) assembling the stage; soon, however, live actors replace the puppets, though they too are controlled by the kurogo. Toru Takemitsu’s jarring score heightens the film’s Brechtian, abstract distancing of “story” and “telling,” as does the minimal set design by Kiyoshi Awazu; by the end, only the kurogo’s anguish remains. “Double Suicide extends Chikamatsu’s concerns to include ethics versus eroticism,” wrote Albert Johnson, “a thralldom timelessly enacted behind the mystery of empty streets and houses, beyond the anonymity of human crowds.”http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122258&date=2019-01-27Dynasties and Democracy in Japan, Feb 1http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122074&date=2019-02-01
Political dynasties exist in all democracies, but have been conspicuously prevalent in Japan, where over a third of legislators and two-thirds of cabinet ministers come from families with a history in parliament. In his new book, <i>Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan</i>, Daniel M. Smith introduces a comparative theory to explain the persistence of dynastic politics in democracies like Japan, and explores the implications of this theory for candidate selection, election, and cabinet promotion, as well as the impact of dynasties on the quality of representation.<br />
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<b>Daniel M. Smith</b> is Associate Professor in the Department of Government. His research focuses primarily on political parties, candidate selection, elections and electoral systems, and coalition government, particularly in Japan. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, San Diego, and his B.A. in political science and Italian from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has conducted research in Japan as a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology research scholar at Chuo University, and as a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the Department of Government, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122074&date=2019-02-01Gallery + Studio: Animal Encounters in Japanese Art, Feb 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123294&date=2019-02-09
Inspired by painted screens, album pages, and scrolls in Ink, Paper, Silk, paint your own animals and birds using Japanese ink brush pens on heavy paper folded into panels. By the end of this workshop with artist Mary Curtis Ratcliff, you’ll have made a freestanding miniature Japanese folding screen!<br />
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About Gallery + Studio<br />
On the second Saturday of each month, Gallery + Studio connects art viewing with art making in ways that engage both young people and their grown-ups. Each two-part workshop integrates an interactive gallery tour with a related art project, and lasts about an hour and a half. Sign up on site beginning fifteen minutes before the session you wish to attend. Space is limited to twelve kids per session; please arrive promptly to sign up.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123294&date=2019-02-09Gallery + Studio: Animal Encounters in Japanese Art, Feb 9http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123295&date=2019-02-09
Inspired by painted screens, album pages, and scrolls in Ink, Paper, Silk, paint your own animals and birds using Japanese ink brush pens on heavy paper folded into panels. By the end of this workshop with artist Mary Curtis Ratcliff, you’ll have made a freestanding miniature Japanese folding screen!<br />
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About Gallery + Studio<br />
On the second Saturday of each month, Gallery + Studio connects art viewing with art making in ways that engage both young people and their grown-ups. Each two-part workshop integrates an interactive gallery tour with a related art project, and lasts about an hour and a half. Sign up on site beginning fifteen minutes before the session you wish to attend. Space is limited to twelve kids per session; please arrive promptly to sign up.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123295&date=2019-02-09Taming Japan’s Deflation, Feb 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122263&date=2019-02-11
Around the world, governments have delegated political independence to central banks that wield tremendous power based on the belief that independence would allow these institutions to keep inflation in check. From the mid-1990s, Japan’s economy charted a unique trajectory: it fell into deflation and never fully emerged from it for nearly the next twenty years. Only with the election of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe at the end of 2012 and his appointment in early 2013 of new leadership at Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ), did Japan finally launch a policy course capable of pulling Japan fully out of deflation. This presentation explains why it took so long for the BOJ to embrace bolder monetary policies to address this problem and the factors that led the government to shift course.<br />
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<b>Dr. Gene Park</b> is Director of the Global Policy Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). Prior to arriving at LMU, he taught at Baruch College, City University of New York. Professor Park was also a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center. In addition, he spent two years as a researcher at Japan’s Ministry of Finance. He also has had affiliations with the Stockholm School of Economics and Keio University in Tokyo. He is a member of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation’s U.S.-Japan Network for the Future.<br />
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His published work includes <i>Taming Japan's Deflation: The Debate Over Unconventional Monetary Policy</i>, a co-authored book, from Cornell University Press (2018), a co-edited volume with Eisaku Ide entitled, <i>Deficits and Debt in the Industrialized Democracies</i> (Routledge, 2015), and <i>Spending without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan</i> (Stanford University Press, 2011). Dr. Park received a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College and Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California Berkeley. He is a former Fulbright Scholar.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122263&date=2019-02-11Beyond heteronormativity: Queer archaeology in Japan, Feb 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123634&date=2019-02-11
This presentation focuses on issues of heteronormativity in Japanese archaeology. I will start off by describing the research environment of Japanese archaeology. What I would like to consider in this section is the reason the archaeology of gender and sexuality is not popular in Japan. Then I will take up some case studies regarding same-sex relationships and cross-dressing in prehistoric and protohistoric Japan. I will explore how such practical studies can oppose heteronormative interpretations, and what new information and perspectives can be gained through a reconstruction of the past.<br />
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<strong>About the Speaker:</strong> Jun Mitsumoto is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Museum Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Center for Research on the Dynamics of Civilizations, Okayama University, Japan. He received his PhD in 2004 from Okayama University. His research interests include archaeology of the Yayoi and Kofun periods, archaeology of embodiment, and archaeology of gender and sexuality, particularly queer archaeology. He has also used 3D measurements to actively conduct field surveys and excavations in the Kofun-period mounded tombs in the Okayama area (2014-2018).http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123634&date=2019-02-11Design Field Notes: Karen Nakamura, Feb 11http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123550&date=2019-02-11
Karen Nakamura is a cultural and visual anthropologist who researches disability in contemporary Japan at the University of California, Berkeley. Her first project was on sign language, identity, and deaf social movements and resulted in a monograph and edited volume. After that, her second project was on schizophrenia and community-based recovery in Japan and this resulted in a book, its translation, and two films.<br />
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She is currently running the Berkeley Disability Lab and the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society Disability Studies research cluster while finishing a third project which explores the intersections of disability, gender, and sexuality, which will result in a book titled: Trans/Japan. After that, she is working on a project on prosthetic, replacement, and augmentation technologies in contemporary Japan and the USA.<br />
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About Design Field Notes: <br />
Each informal talk in this pop-up series brings a design practitioner to a Jacobs Hall teaching studio to share ideas, projects, and practices. This semester, Design Field Notes and the Institute's other public programs engage questions of inclusion, accessibility, and justice under the title For Whom? By Whom?: Designs for Belonging. To learn more about upcoming events across our series, visit programs.jacobshall.org.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123550&date=2019-02-11American Sutra: Buddhism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, Feb 25http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122540&date=2019-02-25
Duncan Ryūken Williams (USC) will discuss his new book “American Sutra” about Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American internment. The fact that the vast majority of Japanese Americans were Buddhist was responsible for why nearly 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-third of whom were American citizens, were targeted for forcible removal from the Pacific coast states and incarcerated in remote interior camps surrounded by barbed wire. Ironically, their Buddhist faith also was also what helped the Japanese American community endure and persist at a time of dislocation, loss, and uncertainty. Based on newly translated Japanese-language diaries of Buddhist priests from the camps, extensive interview with survivors of the camps, and newly declassified government documents about how Buddhism was seen as a national security threat, Williams argues that Japanese American Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in U.S. history.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122540&date=2019-02-25Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials, Mar 1-3http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122162&date=2019-03-01
The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the <i>Tannishō</i>, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. 2019 will be the third year in this five-year project that meets twice each year: we will meet in Berkeley from March 1 to 3 and in Kyoto at Ōtani University from June 21 to 23. Organized around close readings of the most influential materials produced in early modern, modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at producing a critical, annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which this text has been both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of essays analyzing a wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and preaching that have spoken on this work. For the early modern or Edo period, the commentaries by Enchi (1662), Jukoku (1740), Jinrei (1808), and Ryōshō (1841) will be examined. For the modern period, works by Andō Shūichi (1909), Chikazumi Jōkan (1930), and Soga Ryōjin (1947) will be the major concern. And for the postwar/postmodern period, due to the sheer volume of publications (over 300 titles), reading choices will be selected at a later date in consultation with participants. <br />
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<b>Format</b>: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be in primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in <i>kanbun</i> and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content. <br />
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<b>Dates</b>: Exact dates will vary from year to year based on academic calendars, but for 2019 the meeting hosted by U.C. Berkeley will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of March at the Jōdo Shinshū Center in Berkeley, and in Kyoto the seminar will be hosted by Ōtani University from the 21st to the 23th of June. <br />
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<b>Cost:</b> There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project.<br />
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<b>Participation Requirements:</b> Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is acceptable. <br />
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<b>Application Procedure:</b> Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply to register for either or both of the workshops for 2019, send C.V. and short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by the end of <b>January, 2019</b>. Applications are by email only, and application deadlines will remain as end-January in subsequent years as well. Requests for a travel fellowship money should be included in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from and if you plan to attend one or both meetings that year. Questions about the content of the workshop may be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu. Communication regarding the Kyoto meeting may be sent to Professor Michael Conway at conway@res.otani.ac.jp.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122162&date=2019-03-01Literary Representations of Buddhist Funerals, Mar 2http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=124142&date=2019-03-02
In this lecture, Natsume Sōseki’s The Miner and “A Rainy Day” in To the Spring Equinox and Beyond are treated as works of path literature. During the Buddhist funerals, periods of transition in the lives of the literary characters and new sensations regarding life and death are identified through the connection of the term “path” as a synonym for passage. The funerals lead the fictional characters to reflect on their existence and the Buddhist funeral fictionalized in A Rainy Day was also cathartic for Sōseki himself. The lecture is based on my forthcoming book titled, The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction: Path Literature and An Interpretation of Buddhism, which aims to extract unrecognized Buddhist elements from the disciplinary divide between modern Japanese literary studies and Buddhist studies.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=124142&date=2019-03-02Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theorizing Art and Politics in East Asia, Mar 19http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123495&date=2019-03-19
Observing that the division between theory and empiricism remains inextricably linked to imperial modernity, manifest at the most basic level in the binary between “the West” and “Asia,” the authors in the forthcoming collection <i>Beyond Imperial Aesthetics</i> (co-edited by Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe, Hong Kong University Press, 2019) reexamine art and aesthetics to challenge these oppositions in order to reconceptualize politics and knowledge production in East Asia. <br />
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If the seemingly universal operation of capital and militarism in East Asia requires locally specific definitions of biopolitical concepts to function smoothly, this book critiques the circuit of power between the universalism of capital and particularism of nation and culture in the context of East Asia after 1945. Treating aesthetic experiences in art at large as the bases for going beyond imperial categories, the contributors discuss new modes of sensing, thinking, and living that have been unimaginable within the mainstream modality of Asian studies, a discipline that has reproduced the colonial regime of knowledge production. <br />
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Moderated by the book's co-editor Steve Choe, this book event will feature presentations by the book’s contributor Naoki Sakai and co-editor Mayumo Inoue, followed by a commentary from Miryam Sas.<br />
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<b>Presenters:</b><br />
Naoki Sakai (Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Cornell University)<br />
Mayumo Inoue (Comparative Literature, Hitotsubashi University)<br />
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<b>Commentator:</b><br />
Miryam Sas (Comparative Literature and Film & Media, UC Berkeley) <br />
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<b>Moderator:</b> <br />
Steve Choe (Film Studies, San Francisco State University)<br />
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This event is free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=123495&date=2019-03-19Key Issues in the Current Global Economy, Apr 5http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121638&date=2019-04-05
What are the contours of superpower competition? How do middle powers interact with great powers in the 21st century? In East Asia, what options do middle powers in Asia such as Taiwan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and other have? What lessons might we have from middle power strategies from the age of US-Soviet Cold War competition? This conference will explore super and middle powers in an era of strategic competition, financial regulation, industrial policy and green goods, and industrial policy, ip, investment, and trade conflict.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121638&date=2019-04-05China's Growing Sharp Power: Western, Asian, and African Perspectives, Apr 19http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122820&date=2019-04-19
A group of leading experts on China and American foreign policy recently released “Chinese Influence and American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance,” a report documenting Chinese efforts to influence American society. The report examines China's efforts to influence American institutions, including state and local governments, universities, think tanks, media, corporations, and the Chinese-American community, and differentiates between legitimate efforts--like public diplomacy--and improper interference, which demands greater awareness and a calibrated response. The report also includes perspectives from other countries, including those in Europe and the Asia-Pacific. <br />
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On Friday, April 19, contributors to the report, including co-editors Larry Diamond and Orville Schell, and outside experts will gather at UC Berkeley to compare and discuss the forms and effects of Chinese “sharp power” across Western, Asian, and African countries. <br />
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The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of European Studies, Canadian Studies Program, Institute for South Asia Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and Center for African Studies.<br />
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Panels/Speakers: <br />
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Western Country Perspectives Panel<br />
Moderator: Larry Diamond, Stanford University <br />
Canada: Paul Evans, University of British Columbia <br />
Czech Republic: Martin Hala, Charles University <br />
Europe/France: Mathieu Duchatel, Institut Montaigne<br />
New Zealand: Anne-Marie Brady, University of Canterbury <br />
United States: Larry Diamond, Stanford University <br />
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Asian Country Perspectives Panel<br />
Moderator: Kevin O'Brien, UC Berkeley<br />
Cambodia/Myanmar/Malaysia: Andrew Mertha, Johns Hopkins SAIS<br />
Korea: See-won Byun, San Francisco State University <br />
South Asia/India: Tanvi Madan, The Brookings Institution <br />
Taiwan: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College<br />
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African Country Perspectives Panel<br />
Moderator: Mariane Ferme, UC Berkeley <br />
Lina Benabdallah, Wake Forest University <br />
W. Gyude Moore, Center for Global Development <br />
Ching Kwan Lee, University of California, LA <br />
Jamie Monson, Michigan State University <br />
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Wrap-up Panel<br />
Moderator: Orville Schell, Asia Society <br />
John Pomfret, former Washington Post Bureau Chief<br />
Orville Schell, Asia Society <br />
Kwei-Bo Huang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan <br />
Yawei Liu, Carter Centerhttp://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=122820&date=2019-04-19New Archaeology Discoveries in Asia, Apr 29http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121857&date=2019-04-29
This event celebrates the publication of the Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology by inviting two editors of this volume, both of whom are prominent scholars in the field of Asian Archaeology. Prof. John W. Olsen (University of Arizona) will talk about his recent archaeological expeditions in Mongolia and Tibet with a focus on Paleolithic archaeology in these regions. Peter V. Lape (University of Washington) will discuss his recent survey of small islands in eastern Indonesia and new information about the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic period.http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ieas.html?event_ID=121857&date=2019-04-29